Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commencement exercises, addresses are always given on practical problems which confront the negro population of the surrounding districts. But for the help of the better elements of white population the negro race could never have made the wonderful progress it has in the fifty years of its existence in freedom. The feeling between the races is constantly improving as the negro becomes more self-respecting and more worthy of the respect of his white neighbors. The number of lynchings is decidedly on the decrease, the number being less last year than in any previous year for over a quarter...
...formation of Freshman and Sophomore Commons. The fraternity life of the smaller New England colleges has divided men "laterally" rather than "horizontally," but with little effect upon the degree of the individualism. The individualism of Harvard has been due to the encouragement of scholarship in its faculty, to the freedom of discussion, to the liveliness, tolerance and diversity of its intellectual life. The Freshman dormitories may well be made to afford a means by which these influences shall be made more pervasive and effectual...
...matter must be "left in the hands of the (joint) Faculty" seems the only way out. To leave the subject intact to be treated without a priori restriction by the administrators of the new organization--thus and thus only can the desired results be obtained without sacrifice of freedom in the whole body. Indeed that is, we take it, the key note of the whole movement. The details are perplexing, the plans of action elaborate and yet the ultimate success of the work depends on the sincere intelligent co-operation of the administrative officers. No amount of detailed specification...
...Harvard, for more than a generation, has prided itself justly on the perfect freedom of the individual enjoyed by everyone within its walls, whether students or members of the Faculty. This spirit of individualism is very much in evidence in every part of the University, whether in the Yard, the dormitories, or the Harvard Union. In every classroom one becomes immediately connections of an atmosphere of strong, independent thought, of a critical, analytical spirit of challenge, of an almost self-assertive pride of unshackled, fearless, intellectual freedom. The effect of this atmosphere is of course most stimulating. Many...
...larger part of this task must be done by the students themselves. It may fairly be questioned whether Harvard students are prepared to help create that common college spirit that demands more or less of conformity: whether they are prepared to sacrifice any considerable amount of that precious freedom of the individual which has its great virtues as well as its defects...